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Ashley Hawkes
Ashley Hawkes
(12.11.83 / Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand)
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Auckland based unpublished poet and performing artist.
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Ashley Hawkes Poems
Moroccan Retreat.
High on desert winds they sail,
sand blows in to fill their trail.
As memories of the battle fade
they hoist their flag in search of shade.... more »
Sabre Tooth Tigers
Lie against his crumpled spirit luscious thing
And pour your deepened, treacle love
Over his quivering bod... more »
Beneath The Surface She Resides
I stared once down
Through shifting mud
To a cold, still woman
And rode upon her breath.... more »
Our Young Men Blew
A man works in a Northern field
Where once there stood a meadow
On his brow a dry straw hat
Behind him lags his shadow... more »
Come Back To Me
Come back to me before the springtime babes,
When Owairaka has her skirt tucked high into her stockings,
So as to tip-toe softly across the platonic shelf... more »
Little Harry
Harold was an evil child
Conceived on a stolen train
Born in a sack from a prostitutes back
He had murder on his brain... more »
Car Coming Home
Long and stealthy night
Lead me on.
And on.
Glide me by with yellow eyes... more »
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Our Young Men Blew
A man works in a Northern field
Where once there stood a meadow
On his brow a dry straw hat
Behind him lags his shadow
Forty Summers been and gone
He's determined it's not his last
But it was twice as many years before
This ground felt cannon blast
It was upon this bitten earth they fell
As the willow sheds her blossom
Our young men blew across the mud
As the wind blows through the cotton
This man sets down his hat and spade
Hungry children call him south
The thought of Autumn on his mind
Taste of ale in his mouth
He pauses for a...
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